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Guardians 3 was good.

Mostly because they weren’t trying to shoehorn future movie plot setups into it.

On that note, the Holiday Special was also pretty good.

Shang-Chi wasn’t a bad movie… Not one I’m likely to rewatch much, but a good popcorn movie…

Other than that, no Marvel has started falling into producer interference mode, where every movie must explicitly set up the next, even if they don’t have a full plan for what’s next.

They’ve lost sight of the key to their success; telling a tight, self-contained story made by people who love the characters.

Say the wrong thing and make things super awkward?

The North Sentinel Island Sentinelese are not cannibals. They just want nothing to do with anyone not born on the island.

Which is a good policy to have, seeing as how the British genocided the rest of the Andaman Islands. They even landed on North Sentinel, kidnapped a few old people and children, and then sent the survivors back as plague bearers. (this was in 1880)

Watch the first 8 seconds of the video, the real name pops up. (Cody Johnston)

It’s just not in the transcript?

That’s the most common, but there are weird pasta types out there made with beans or cauliflower or such…

The majority of those are vegan by design, but I’ve seen a few that were just gluten-free, and still used egg as a binder.

Usually sold as egg noodles, yes.

Most Italian died pasta is going to be made with just flour and water, but again, there are exceptions.

There are vegan sauces that are quite nice, sure, they’re just not Worcestershire sauce.

Hell, I’ll go further and say that if it’s not made by Lea and Perrins, it’s not Worcestershire sauce.

Dry pasta is. Any other noodle will not be. Eggs are used in a lot of places.

All Worcestershire sauce. It’s fermented anchovy sauce with some spices.

Anything that doesn’t have the anchovy, isn’t Worcestershire sauce.

I do live like that.

Importantly, while cats are safer indoors, vulnerable wildlife is much safer when cats are indoors.

A lifesaver until the Roomba becomes sentient. Then it’s robot ankle apocalypse.

Any time I see someone say “flashbacks to 'nam” I think about the story of Old Man Henderson.

Sadly, I don’t know if the story is still hosted anywhere…

I would do karaoke sober.

I mean, any of the times I’ve actually tried before I’ve been rather drunk, so much so that I was actually once escorted off-stage in the middle of a 2-minute song…

Saturnalia was likely not the holiday that became Christmas. Or at least that’s not the complete story.

Part of it is that solstice celebrations were pretty common. Modern Christmas just owes most of its pomp to more Celtic and Norse traditions.

Also, the timing of picking December 25th as Christmas has more to do with a bit of rabbinical superstition than anything else. See, there was this firmly held belief (based on nothing) that great men would die on the date of their conception.

So since Jesus died in late March or early April, he had to have been born nine months later, or at the end of December, Because that’s how the logic went.

And yes, it’s the exact same sort of logic that Monty Python made fun of with the “does she weigh as much as a duck?” scene.

Basic used “else”.

It’s nice. “if”, “then”, and “else”. I spent a year programming a shitty roulette game on an Apple 2e back in high school. I still remember the joy of using if/then/else paired with goto to make a horrible mess of spaghetti logic.

But yeah, “else” is nice.

There was a podcast I listened to some time back where one of the people was describing exotic pets, particularly lions and tigers, and how their uncle had kept some, and they were told to never let the cats play bite, because they would keep doing it into adulthood, and then you’d have a dead owner.

This is why Joe Exotic’s “Tiger petting zoo” had such a high body count. Turns out that meth and tigers shouldn’t mix.

745 followers on the site it’s hosted on.

So not exactly a popular thing, and yet, not completely obscure.

But yeah, the single “joke” that is an anti-joke 99% of the time.

I can see how some people could like it for the abstract absurdity, but that doesn’t lead to large numbers of fans.

It’s a somewhat long-running web comic, with the one joke being that the kid’s dad is Dracula, but also some random other thing, like a brick, or a landlord. Sometimes the jokes fall flat… Most times really.

They aren’t on the same level of fraudulent bullshit, but they’re close.

Fingerprint matching is done “by eye” and often involves an “expert” saying that one smudge is a 100% match for another smudge.

DNA matching is the only forensic science that’s worth a damn, and only if it’s done correctly.

So I forever work on legacy systems.

Not ideal, but there’s quite a bit of job security in it.